NASA can't afford to leak-test Station modules like the Russians.
TOO EXPENSIVE: Looks like the U.S. pressurized modules for the International Space Station won't get a Russian-style vacuum test before they are launched after all. There are two large Apollo-era vacuum chambers in the high-bay facility at Kennedy Space Center where U.S. Station modules are...
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